A01760:727
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our own arguments [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the answers and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Morton ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our ovvne argumemts [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the ansvveres and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Mortoune ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.
Leiden: printed by W. Christiaens, 1637
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I mean not to derogate any thing from King James his due deserved praise, nor to obscure his never dying memory. Only I say, that such a Prince as the B. speaketh of, who knoweth what is fit for a Church to have, and what not, better then many learned and godly Pastors assembled in a Synod, is Rara a•is in terris nigroque simillima Cygno. For a Prince being but a man, and so subject to error: being ⟨p. 132⟩but one man, and so in the greater hazard of error, for plus vident oculi, quam oculus; and woe to him that […] alone, when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up saith gthe wisest of mortal Kings: being also compassed & assailed with so many and so mighty tentations, which other men are free of: and lastly, being so taken up and distracted with secular affairs and cares, that very seldom is he found well versed or singularly learned in the controversies of Religion: may not such a one in the common sense of Christians, be thought more like to fail & miscarry, in his judgement about things Ecclesiastical, then a whole Synod, wherein there are many of the learned, judicious and godly Ministers of the Church. Papists tell us, that they will not defend the personal actions of the Pope, hquasi ipse solus omnibus horis sapore potuerit, id quod recte nemini concessum perhibetur. Their own records let the world know the abominable vices and impieties of Popes. Witness Platina, in the life of John the 10. Benedict the 4. John the 13. Boniface the 7. John the 20:—John the 22. Paul the 2. &c. And further when our Adversaries dispute of the Popes infallibility, they grant, for his own person, he may be an Heretic: only they hold that he cannot err e Cathedra.
I meane not to derogate any thing from King Iames his due deserved praise, nor to obscure his never dying memory. Only I say, that such a Prince as the B. speaketh of, who knoweth what is fit for a Church to have, and what not, better then many learned and godly Pastors assembled in a Synode, is Rara a•is in terris nigroque simillima Cygno. For a Prince beeing but a man, and so subject to errour: being ⟨p. 132⟩